TITLE: RingWorld Ship
NAME: Lon Bliss
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: nhp@inlink.com
WEBPAGE: www.inlink.com/~nhp
TOPIC: RingWorld
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ringwshi.jpg
ZIPFILE: ringwshi.zip
RENDERER USED:
Pov Ray
TOOLS USED:
MoRay
RENDER TIME:
2.5 hours
HARDWARE USED:
Pentium 166
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
As you can see, this is a renerding of a ship comming into approach to a Ring
World
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I used the MoRay modeler to make this image. The zip file
should contain the model and the pov source for this image. You will
have to download the Comet ship from the Moray site for
the ship. This image is a ship comming in on approach to a
Ring World. This was of course inspired by "Lary Nivvenn's"
"Ring World." The Ringworld being the size that it was, I
wanted to make one close to scale so I could see what it
may actually look like. Here is an extract from the book
about the dimmensions:
extract:
A "ring-shaped" artifact orbiting star ED-1752 which
serves as an artificial planet for its inhabitants.
If the Ringworld were to be laid flat, it wouldbe a concave
strip roughly 600 million miles long, another million miles wide, but
only 1000 meters thick. The sides of this strip would rise 1000 miles
above its meridian. All told, Ringworld has 600 trillion miles of
surface area, 3 million times that of Earth.
I made one unit a million miles. This told me that the diameter
of the ring is 600 units long and one unit wide.
Using diamter=pi*radius
the radius is about 191.082 units big. This is what I used to
calculate the size of the RING.
The ship is the Comet ship object from the MoRay site. The Sun
is the BigStar flare. The Ship Exaust is the Sunset1 Flare. I have
actually two rings, because the bottom of the Ring World is supposed to
be a very flat black. so I have one ring slightly larger for the
undernieth.
Please look at the model and give me any suggestions, or make
your own improvements.
Lon Bliss
nhp@inlink.com
www.inlink.com/~nhp